Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremists in Lebanon. As he has in the past when it served his purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria, made a secret visit to Damascus on Saturday, evidently to arrange the details of Jacobsen's release. "This is very typical of the Syrians," said a high-ranking observer in Israel. "They realized that they made a blunder of international proportions...
...would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish...
Grufferman too was skeptical -- until examination of the slides showed that one patient indeed had Burkitt's lymphoma. With Dr. Joseph Pagano, a cancer virologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he promptly launched an investigation. Soon, Pagano recalls, "we realized that a virus was a more likely explanation than any other...
...scientists are also scrambling to develop therapies to help rebuild immune systems devastated by the AIDS attack. "The real goal," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), should be "to simultaneously suppress the virus and build up the immune response in the patient." Other researchers are concentrating on preventing the disease, experimenting with vaccines designed to protect healthy people from infection by the virus...
...eyes at all," said one patient, Mary M. Sousa, 76, of Sommerville. "By evening I can do nothing but go to bed with a scarf over my head to cover my eyes. It's miserable...